Boeing Purchases Encore Real-Time Cluster Systems

Business Wire, Nov 13, 1997

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1997--

...Encore Continues its Success of Adding Real-Time

Capabilities to Alpha-based Systems...

Encore Computer Corp. Thursday announced that The Boeing Co., headquartered in Seattle, has purchased a high performance Real-Time cluster system. This high end system contains a cluster of five alpha based processors combined with VME and Real-Time I/O. This Encore Real-Time computer solution supports the design, development, testing and simulation modeling of various software modules for the Boeing Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft.

The system will be housed in the AWACS Test Laboratory and has been configured to support large data rate transfer requirements, high fidelity two and three dimensional graphics and high computer requirements across the five processor design. UNIX(r) real-time capability is made available through the use of Encore's hardware and software value-add enhancements. True real-time performance is supported using Encore's real-time software, the Real-Time Option Module (RTOM) and REFLECTIVE MEMORY(r) System (RMS). These hardware and software value adds enable UNIX to host a real-time environment that can respond to external interrupts encounters, eliminate UNIX overhead and guarantee a deterministic operating scenario. The Encore RMS enables in real-time, data to be shared in the software simulation across each of the five processors.

The Boeing test laboratory is a Boeing capital resource. Its mission is to serve as the high-technology/high-performance development tool for the development and testing of AWACS software and hardware systems.

Encore Computer Corp., a worldwide company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, is the world's leading innovator in scalable real-time data storage, data retrieval, and data sharing technologies for mixed platform processing environments. Encore continues its 36-year tradition of market leadership in providing real-time deterministic systems for time-critical applications. For more information on Encore, access the World Wide Web at http://www.encore.com . -0- REFLECTIVE MEMORY is a registered trademark of Encore Computer Corp. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other

countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Co. Ltd. Alpha-AXP is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp.

CONTACT: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale

Charles S. Anderson, 954/797-5605